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Word: mccomb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally in mid-August the first groups of people began to take the five-minute walk down to the court house to get on the registration roles. A Harvard senior, Marshall Ganz '65, helped organize the registration. (Ganz will return to McComb this week and will stay there for a' year...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: Voting Drive Starts Despite Violence | 10/1/1964 | See Source »

Acros the state COFO members left that the movement into McComb was a test of the project and their song, We Shall Never Turn Back...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: Voting Drive Starts Despite Violence | 10/1/1964 | See Source »

Five Negroes had been murdered in the McComb area during the spring and violence soon greeted the new COFO workers. On July 8 a bomb blast destoyed the front of the Freedom House where ten workers were sleeping. Curtis Hayes was badly cut by flying glass...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: Voting Drive Starts Despite Violence | 10/1/1964 | See Source »

Even voter registration was considered too dangerous for the time being. And so a Freedom School was begun to organize the McComb community. Ralph Featherstone, a 25-year-old Negro speech teacher from Washington, D.C., arrived on the project and took charge of the school...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: Voting Drive Starts Despite Violence | 10/1/1964 | See Source »

Robert, Coles, Research Psychiatrist to the University Health Services, was in McComb working for COFO during this period. Coles, who was often harassed by city police and once chased by a car at night, recounts one incident...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: Voting Drive Starts Despite Violence | 10/1/1964 | See Source »

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